Amelia Earhart is on the moon? [Wait! What?]by Gutman, Dan 

BTSB Prebound(Norton Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 408428 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.7 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: S

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Subjects: Earhart, Amelia,|d1897-1937 Women air pilots - United States - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography

Summary: Did you know that Amelia Earhart loved heights so much she built a roller coaster in her backyard? Or that she used to race worms with her sister? Bet you didn't know that she took photographs of garbage cans to pay for flying lessons! Read some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the legendary pilot.

Amelia Earhart is on the moon? [Wait! What?]by Gutman, Dan 

Paperback(Norton Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 408429 Temp OS

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.7 MG F&P: S

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Subjects: Earhart, Amelia,|d1897-1937 Women air pilots - United States - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography

Summary: Siblings Paige and Turner do-and they've collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the legendary pilot, from her childhood in the rural Midwest and the spark of her passion for flying to her record-smashing flights and her infamous disappearance over the Pacific Ocean.

American wings : Chicago's pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky by Smith, Sherri L. 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2024)

BTSB #: 826995 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/CAges: 12-14   
Lexile: 1210

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Subjects: African American air pilots - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography Aeronautics - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century

Summary: A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II.

Flying free : how Bessie Coleman's dreams took flight [Sweet blackberry book]by Parsons, Karyn 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 702322 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.8 LG F&P: P

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Subjects: Coleman, Bessie,|d1896-1926 African American women air pilots - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography Rhyme

Summary: The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn her pilot's license.

Rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh by Fleming, Candace 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 341209 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.3 UG Lexile: 980

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Subjects: Lindbergh, Charles A.|q(Charles Augustus),|d1902-1974 Air pilots - United States - Biography

Summary: A riveting biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men.

Segregated skies : David Harris's trailblazing journey to rise above racial barriers by Cottman, Michael H. 

BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2021)

BTSB #: 244706 Available

Dewey: 629.1309/BAges: 9-12   


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Subjects: Harris, David E.,|d1934- Air pilots - United States - Biography African American air pilots - Biography Race relations

Summary: Follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

Unlawful orders : a portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskeegee airman, surgeon, and activist by Binns, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Focus, 2022)

BTSB #: 120214 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 7.9 MG Lexile: 1090

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Subjects: Williams, James,|d1919-2016 United States.|bArmy Air Forces.|bBombardment Group, 477th - Biography African American physicians - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Surgeons - Illinois - Chicago - Biography Air pilots - United States - Biography World War, 1939-1945 African Americans - Social conditions|y20th century South Side (Chicago, Ill.) - Biography

Summary: The inspiring story of James Buchanan "JB" Williams who became a doctor, served as a medic in the US military and eventually joined the elite Tuskegee Airmen, where he fought to change the minds of all who believed Black men couldn't make good soldiers. After the war, his role as doctor and Civil Rights activist pushed past injustices placed on Black Americans.